[SOLVED] Is the community repo part of AUR? (Trouble with cower)

renordw · 2018-03-06 05:40:14

I have been reading through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … #community to attempt to understand how to enable cower to fetch packages from the AUR. Unfortunately, I am having a really tough time understanding a few things.

Firstly, when I attempt to fetch a package in the community repo with cower, I get this error:

$ cower -dd wimlib
warning: wimlib is available in community (ignore this with --ignorerepo=community)

Reading through the documentation tells me that "This repository can be found in .../community/os/ on your favorite mirror."

What does that mean? I am looking at my mirrorlist and I see servers listed like this

Server = http://mirrors.acm.wpi.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

I have been digging around and can't see how to somehow enable the community repo, but I'm not sure if cower looks through this list or not, and what kind of strings are getting passed through to $repo.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Last edited by renordw (2018-03-06 06:03:37)

jasonwryan · 2018-03-06 05:49:46

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … #community

and man pacman.conf

renordw · 2018-03-06 05:52:06

It seems I am confused about the difference between the AUR and community...

Maybe someone can clarify this blurb:

The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman. The AUR was created to organize and share new packages from the community and to help expedite popular packages' inclusion into the community repository. This document explains how users can access and utilize the AUR.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository

...community...

This repository can be found in .../community/os/ on your favorite mirror.

community contains packages that have been adopted by Trusted Users from the Arch User Repository. Some of these packages may eventually make the transition to the core or extra repositories as the developers consider them crucial to the distribution.

Does this mean they are no longer in the AUR?

Last edited by renordw (2018-03-06 05:54:36)

jasonwryan · 2018-03-06 05:56:09

[community] is an official repo, in your pacman.conf

AUR is an unofficial repository that pacman neither knows nor cares about. You are responsible for managing packages installed from here.

renordw · 2018-03-06 05:57:56

I see, so community is like one level of trust above the AUR where pacman officially supports it. Thank you

Last edited by renordw (2018-03-06 05:58:16)

Trilby · 2018-03-06 11:45:54

The ambiguity of the word community is unfortunate, but in fact it is a result of the history.

It was before my time, but originally the supported repos were [core] and [extra]. Then there were these PKGBUILDs put together by community members (things that are now in [community] but at that time this was basically what the AUR is now). Eventually some of those users got organized and created a repository of pre-built binaries of their packages; this is [community]. Still today, [core] and [extra] packages are maintained by arch linux developers while [community] packages are maintained by trusted users.

The AUR is what "community" used to be, and each AUR packages is - at least in general - a candidate for being added to [community] if a trusted user opts to take responsibility for maintaining it.

The group of Trusted Users are now sufficiently well organized and regulated by a clear set of rules that the products of their work are considered an officially supported binary repository.

There are countless other binary repositories out there too. But they are not (yet) considered supported, and you will find that each of them can have earned wildly different reputations.

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#1 2018-03-06 05:40:14

[SOLVED] Is the community repo part of AUR? (Trouble with cower)

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Re: [SOLVED] Is the community repo part of AUR? (Trouble with cower)

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